8th Conference “Microbial Communities as growth engines for
Greece”
VENUE | Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) -
Patra
Thursday 18th April
2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 15:00 Elias
Lagkouvardos, Workshop – Hands-on | Analysis of microbial NGS data
14:00 – 16:00 Registration (On site) – Poster Mounting
15:30 – 16:00 Conference
Opening – Welcome address
PLENARY TALK | CHAIRPERSON: D.
Karpouzas
16:00 – 16:45 John Klironomos,
University of British Columbia: Title to be announced
SESSION
1: Agriculture | CHAIRPERSONS:
Α. Tampakaki & G. Zervakis
17:00 – 17:30 Guido van de Ackerveken
(Invited Speaker): Plant
disease susceptibility; on host genes and pathogen effectors controlling
infection (Utrecht University)
17:30 – 17:45 Danai Gkizi:
Priming of the plant immune responses through epigenetic modifications
triggered by a beneficial bacterium (Agricultural University of Athens)
17:45 – 18:00 Sotirios Vasileiadis:
Roles and interactions of the members of a bacterial consortium along the
degradation of the recalcitrant fungicide thiabendazole revealed via multi-omic
approach (University of Thessaly)
18:00 – 18:15 Chrysanthi Mitsagga:
Characterization, identification and physiological studies of a
pigment-producing tentative Pseudomonas
spp. with antifungal properties (University of Thessaly)
18:15 – 18:30 Ioannis Kampouris:
Wastewater irrigation is affecting the prevalence of antibiotic resistance
genes in topsoil and groundwater (Technische Universität Dresden)
18:30 – 19:00 Panagiotis Sarris (Invited Speaker): Pathogens
perception by the plant innate immunity system: from basic research to
applications (FORTH - IMBB)
19:30 Welcome reception
Friday 19th
April 2019
SESSION
2: Food & Nutrition | CHAIRPERSONS: A. Kyriacou & G. Nychas
09:00 – 09:30 Kostas Koutsoumanis (Invited
Speaker): Individual cell behavior: understanding
and predicting the “noisy” microbial responses in foods (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki)
09:30 – 09:45 Ioanna Prapa: Effect of
pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) on the
fecal microbiota population of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat (Democritus
University of Thrace).
09:45 – 10:00 Ioanna Chalvanzti:
Structural variation of grape yeast communities over space and time (ELGO - DEMETER)
10:00 – 10:15 Efstathios Giaouris:
Comparative evaluation of the disinfection actions of thymol and benzalkonium
chloride against adapted and non-adapted to thymol Salmonella biofilm cells (University of the Aegean)
10:15 – 10:30 Maria Kazou: Exploring
the microbial ecosystem of Geremezi cheese using culture-dependent and
-independent approaches (Agricultural University of Athens)
10:30 – 10:45 Nikos Chorianopoulos: Monitoring the effect of food spoilage
bacteria on the photocatalytic activity of a TiO2 nanoparticle based
surfactant against biofilms formed by foodborne bacteria (ELGO- DEMETER)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break –
Visit to the posters
SESSION
3: Environment | CHAIRPERSONS: D. Venieri & I. Chatzipavlidis
11:30 – 12:00 Antonis Chatzinotas (Invited
Speaker): Title to be announced (UFZ-Leipzig)
12:00 – 12:15 Christina Pavloudi:
Identification of microbial communities by RNA stable isotope probing and 16S
rRNA sequencing from the Benguela coastal upwelling system (Institute of Marine
Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture)
12:15 – 12:30 Alexandra Meziti: Stable microbial communities in
the Thermopyles geothermal springs over a six-year period as revealed by
shotgun metagenomics (University of Thessaly)
12:30 – 12:45 Evanthia Kontomina:
Microbial arylamine N-acetyltransferases: From xenobiotic detoxification to
antibiotic biosynthesis (Democritus University of Thrace)
12:45 – 13:00 Myrto Tsiknia: Host
selection differentiates intraradical endomycorrhizal communities colonizing
endemic plants of sand dune ecosystems in Greece (Agricultural
University of Athens)
13:00 – 13:15 Ioanna Zerva: Hydrolytic microorganisms isolated
from an immobilized cell bioreactor treating red-pepper processing wastewater
(Democritus University of Thrace)
13:15 – 13:45 Antonio Fernandez-Guerra (Invited
Speaker): Mining the Ocean microbiome: from the known to unknown (Max Planck Institute for
Marine Microbiology)
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break –
Visit to the posters
14:00 – 15:00 General Assembly
of the Scientific Society “MikroBioKosmos”
SESSION
4: Molecular Mechanisms & Microorganisms – Energy | CHAIRPERSONS: A. Pappas
& C. Stathopoulos
15:00 – 15:30 Spyros
Pavlostathis (Invited Speaker): Bioelectrochemical systems for
carbon-neutral biofuel and bioenergy production (Georgia Tech)
15:30 – 15:45 Vassiliki Lila Koumandou:
A tool for examining the bioenergetic diversity of microbiomes (Agricultural
University of Athens)
15:45 – 16:00 Nikoleta Giarimoglou: The role of staphylococcal-specific glyS T-box
domains in transcription regulation and antibiotic binding (University of
Patras)
16:00 – 16:15 Emilia Grypioti:
Characterization of RNA silencing pathways and physiological roles in the model
diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (FORTH
- IMBB)
16:15 – 16:30 Vasileios Vangalis: Nuclear behaviour during colony
initiation and conidial fusion in Verticillium dahlia, (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens)
16:30 – 16:45 Christos Chasapis: The
in silico reconstructed
protein-protein interaction network of Streptomyces
lividans (FORTH / ICE-HT)
16:45 – 17:15 Nassos
Typas (Invited Speaker): Drugs & Bugs: unexplored relationships (EMBL)
17:15 – 17:45 Coffee Break –
Visit to the posters
SESSION 5A – Round Table: From research to commercial
applications | MODERATORS: M. Klapa, G. Tsiamis & D. Vayenas
18:00
– 18:15 Panos Kolios, Andromeda SA
18:15
– 18:30 Nikos
Koutsougeras, Phytothreptiki
18:30
– 18:45 Tasos
Kapagiannidis, ALPHA - Bio Wastewater Innovation
18:45
– 19:00 Stathis
Kyriacou, Euromarket Ltd
19:00 – 19:15 Ioannis Zois, PPC
S.A. / TRSC
19:15
– 19:45 Discussion
SESSION 5B – Mini Tutorial
17:45 – 19:45 Christina Pavloudi, Haris Zafiropoulos & Evangelos
Pafilis: Metabarcoding analysis for the 16S and COI marker genes: from the
raw .fastq files to the (M)OTU-table (Institute of Marine Biology,
Biotechnology and Aquaculture)
21:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 20th
April 2019
SESSION
6: Biotechnology - New technologies | CHAIRPERSONS: K. Karamanoli & E.
Topakas
09:00 – 09:30 Cheryl Kerfeld (Invited Speaker – ASM Sponsored): Diversity, structure, function, assembly and
engineering of bacterial microcompartments (Michigan State University)
09:30 – 09:45 Ilias Lagkouvardos: Sequence
and cultivation study of Muribaculaceae reveals novel species, host preference,
and functional potential of this yet undescribed family (Technical University
of Munich)
09:45 – 10:00 Dimitris Hatzinikolaou: The
suitability of Brewers’ Spent Grain (BSG) for 2nd generation bioethanol
production (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
10:00 – 10:15 Antonis Katsoulas:
Bisphenol–A interactions with the gut and feces microbiome of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki)
10:15 – 10:30 Maria Kalntremtziou:
Dissection of the lignocellulose degradation potential of soil microbial
communities through diversity and targeted functional meta-omics approaches (National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
10:30 – 11:00 Shihui Yang (Invited Speaker):
Develop Zymomonas mobilis as a
synthetic chassis for lignocellulosic bioproducts (Hubei
University)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break –
Visit to the posters
SESSION
7: Laboratory Infrastructures at National Level | MODERATOR: M. Klapa & G.
Tsiamis
11:30 – 11:45 Charalampos
Savakis: Mikrobiokosmos and ELIXIR: Reciprocal relationships
11:45 – 12:00 Nektarios Tavernarakis:
BioImaging-GR: The National Infrastructure
12:00 – 12:15 Antonios
Magoulas: EMBRC - European Marine Biological Resource Centre
12:15 – 12:30 Christos Arvanitidis:
Construction and operation of the LifeWatch Greece Research Infrastructure
(ESFRI)
12:30 – 12:45 Kalliopi
Papadopoulou: OMIC-Engine: from omics technologies to genomic
engineering. A national infrastructure on Synthetic Biology
12:45 – 13:00 Evangelia
Chrysina: The National Research Infrastructures on Integrated Structural
Biology, Drug Screening Efforts and Drug target functional characterization
13:00 – 13:15 George Angelopoulos:
Waste Valorization and sustainable management of resources
13:15 – 13:30 Vassilis Drakopoulos: National Infrastructure for nanotechnology,
advanced materials & micro-nanoelectronics (INNOVATION-EL)
13:30 – 14:30 Discussion
14:30 – 14:45 “Costas Drainas” Fellowship, Awards
for the best three poster presentations
14:45 - 15:00 Future Prospects for
MikroBioKosmos
15:00 Conference
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